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Is there a good breakdown by ethnicity (white British, etc.) of how people voted in the Brexit referendum, both in Britain as a whole and in London?

In another question I asked for an estimate of how British citizens voted in the Brexit referendum, considered separately from the approximately 2% of voters (around 1 million people) who were not British citizens. Information given in an answer suggested that a majority of British citizens voted for Britain to leave the EU.

I am now asking how the voting broke down by ethnicity, or more particularly I would like estimates for the following four groups:

  • white British citizens
  • non-white British citizens
  • white people who were not British citizens
  • non-white people who were not British citizens

I am especially interested in the figures for the first group and for the other three groups combined, and whether they might shed light on the following statistics:

BRITAIN AS A WHOLE (i.e. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland)
Leave           52%   Remain  48% (percentages of voters)
white British   82%     other 18% (percentages of population)


LONDON
Leave           40%   Remain  60% (percentages of voters)
white British   45%     other 55% (percentages of population)

Voters in London voted 60-40 for Remain. How did a majority of white British voters in that city vote - for Remain or Leave?

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